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The Poorest Waltz · My Dying Bride

EXERCISE 17 OF 43
Join Chorus 2 to Part O (bars 58-60)
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0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART O
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesIAAAOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Poorest Waltz on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bars 1-74, snare through bars 75-77, hi-hat through bars 78-110, snare through bars 111-114 and hi-hat through bars 115-129.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32, 49-56 and 65, and 14 more places -- 37.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
The Poorest Waltz -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 36, 40 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- I, A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E (a two-bar phrase) -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-60 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 58-65 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 75-108 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 85-112 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Poorest Waltz?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is The Poorest Waltz hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Poorest Waltz?

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 36, 40 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED